Harness



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES STANBROUGH, OF NEVARK, NEW YORK.

HARNESS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 9,628, dated March 22, 1853.

To all whom' i may concern Be it known that I, JAMES STANBROUGH, of thevillage of Newark, town of Arcadia, county of Vayne, and State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Making Horse-Harness andother Leather- Vork; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull and exact description thereof, the accompanying drawings being apart of this specification.

My invention consists in forming upon the work, on such portions of aharness or other thing as is desirable, rounds, raises, or rolls as theyare variously termed by harness makers and other leather workers, bydoubling and stitching together a strap of leather at its edges, or,laying a welt or secondary strap upon a principal strap and stitchingthem together at their corresponding edges, and then covering over orbinding these edges with a separate piece-and in depressing those raisesor rolls so as to conceal t-he stitching upon their binding, by drawingup and fastening by their sides a fold of the principal strap.

By Figure 1 of the drawings is shown the work of two rolls preparatoryto receiving the binding. The welting strap A, and the principal strapB, are laid together at their edges and stitched as shown at a a throughthe principal strap once, and the welting strap twice. Over the'workshown in Fig. l is laid the binding, consisting of strips of leather ofsufficient width to cover the work, and is stitched through and throughjust below the edge of the welting.

The process of putting on the binding is shown in Fig, 4 where thebinding is put upon the edges of a single strap doubled together. Thebinding completed is shown at Figs. 3, 5 and G.

For the purpose of draft and of preserving the work in shape a strapcalled the draft strap shown at Fig. 2 is drawn through the principalstrap on which the rolls are made as seen in Fig. 3 partly drawn in.

Then drawn through, the strap is turned back at the ends and stitcheddown for the purpose of holding a ring or buckle as shown at Z Figs. 5and 7. To conceal the stitching of the binding, t-he rolls are depressedby drawing up by their side folds of the principal strap as seen at gFigs. 4 and 5. These folds are held in place by bringing and stitchingtogether the edges of the principal strap at the ends of the rolls asshown at It Fig. 5.

By widening the principal strap and putting in additional welts anynumber of rolls may be raised on a single strap upon the saine principlethat two are.

For the purpose of ornament, the work, with the exception of thedraftstrap may be of morocco, patent, or other fancy leathers and mayalso be of diierent colors.l The application of this description of workto the different parts of a harness or other thing made of leather isnot limited, and may be understood by reference to Figs. 5, 6, 7 and 4.Fig. 5 being a front view of a breast collar straightened out. Fig. 6being a view of a ring, Fig. 7 of a hip strap, and Fig. 4 of a part ofany other thing manufactured from leather where concealment of seams orwhere ornament is desired.

Some of the advantages of my improvement are-that a harness or otherthing made of leather may be made more highly ornamental by it, than byany other mode, in consequence of its allowing of the use of the fancyleathers in parts where they cannot be used by making harness or otherthings by the usual methods-the form of the work being such as toconceal the principal seams allows of their being on the outside of thestrap and thus brings a smooth strap with rounded surface instead of onewith a projecting seam against the horse, and that in consequence of theconcealment of the principal seams, the process is well adapted to themaking` of rings, terrets, and the like of leather which by reason oftheir ornate appearance and their flexibility render them preferable tosuch as are made of bone or metal; and to the making of various parts oftrunks carriages and other things manufactured of leather.

That I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is The forming ofroundsraises or rolls on the different parts of a harness or otherleather work, by doubling and stitching together a strap of leather atits edges and then binding these edges by a separate piece andconcealing the stitching of such binding by drawing up and fastening bythe side thereof folds of the strap, and this I claim whether the singlestrap only be used for forming a single roll, or a secondary strap beused for forming two or more rolls, substantially as described.

JAS. STANBROUGH.

Titnesses STEPHEN CULVER, v, H. H. MORSE. Y s

